Crazy for Lynn Lowry

Debut short film of Sepehr Sohrabi.

Surveys growing interest, especially among young people, in the occult, black and white magic, mysticism, and witchcraft. Interviews writer Colin Wilson, and shows a self-proclaimed New York Witch, a professor who claims that occultists are frauds and another who taught a course on witchcraft; also includes a high priestess of the New Jersey First Church of Satan.

Can we reinvent our lost queer histories? #Familiar #Touch #Lost #Figures is about queer ancestry and diaspora, a hybrid of cultural traditions and contemporary queer identity. It explores feelings of guilt and joy, and intimacy between femmes of colour.

A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.

A short documentary about Dave McKean's process of creating an image.

Naomi Kawase observes people in the city of Shibuya with curiosity and openness, drawing parallels between life and filmmaking and discovering her abilities as a filmmaker.

This short documentary profiles Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day parade in Montreal in 1959. The annual parade takes place every June 24th in memory of Saint-Jean-Baptiste, the patron saint of Québec. Candid shots of youngsters preparing their costumes for the festivities are partnered with a lively jazz soundtrack. All the Montrealers and out-of-town tourists featured in this film avidly participate in a public festivity that is dear to their hearts.

73.5% of Punjab's youth is addicted to drugs. A multi-million drug nexus is operating under the noses of the Border Security Force, The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, The Narcotics Control Bureau and the Intelligence Bureau, leaving them as mere bystanders to Punjab's erosion. The yearly consumption of alcohol in Punjab makes the city's population one of the highest per capita consumers of alcohol in the world! The scenario in Punjab is deteriorating at such a rapid rate that experts have already begun to put an expiry date to the state.

An interview with cinematographer Junichiro Hayashi speaking about his work with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa

This minimalist six-minute film looks at the creation of animal life through video and time-lapse footage of an embryo’s development – a process universal to all animals, including people. The film follows, in microscopic detail, the development of an alpine newt in its translucent egg all the way from first cell division to moment of hatching.

A ridiculous mini-doc about Bill Daughton and his creation of a six-foot penis costume at the Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village, New York. See Daughton dressed up in the giant penis costume, walking around campus, catching the subway, and chatting with people about the costume on his way to the Halloween Parade. (Oddball Films)

In the midst of the social unrest caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, in Calpan, Puebla, there is a small corner where hope is harvested daily: the people's asylum.

This documentary is an informal portrait of the great modern composer Igor Stravinsky. Proudly American, though still very much an Old World figure with a long and alert memory for people and events in music, literature and art, Stravinsky is depicted here conducting the CBC Symphony Orchestra in a recording of his Symphony of Psalms.

One day, Isaías Dueñas had the dream of becoming part of the Martial Arts Universe, but to achieve this, he had to face to different situations and competitions that would make him challenge himself as a competitor but much more as a person. One of this competitions was Full Contact. Isaías tells us the story of his life.

Andrea and Krisztina Marics are 28-year-old identical twins with a teaching degree that have lived together since birth. They work together at a touring circus, doing joint artistic performances. After a long circus tour abroad, Andrea leaves the close relationship and ends their work together. She feels that she can succeed on her own. Krisztina still lives and works in the circus but struggles to find her place there without Andrea. After the winter tour, Krisztina has to decide if she stays at home with her sister or continues the life of a wanderer.

A short documentary film about the director's relationship with his deceased grandfather.

The posthumous ceremony to honor Mexico's national anthem's authors.

A midwife goes to medical school to learn modern techniques.

However Odd, But Khokhlova

40,000 years in the making: Kogonada's video essay created for The Connected Series.